Approaching Advance Care Planning (ACP) discussions with patients requires doctors to cultivate an environment of trust, empathy, and open communication. Doctors should create a safe space where patients feel comfortable expressing their values, fears, and goals for medical treatment. By approaching ACP discussions with compassion, respect, and sensitivity, doctors can empower patients to make informed decisions about their healthcare journey.

A performance measurement strategy evaluates whether a care management program has met its goals by using a set of metrics compared against expected outcomes.

Directly engaging patients through mobile phones enables patients to text their care team directly with any questions or concerns.

Since 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has established several care management programs to improve outcomes and reduce costs for beneficiaries with chronic conditions and higher complexity. These include:

Software should make meeting compliance and value-based care contracting requirements seamless. ThoroughCare was built to not only meet CMS’s care management program requirements, but our existing tools and capabilities were designed to support value-based care coordination and contracting no matter the payor.

Since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began covering Annual Wellness Visits (AWV) in 2011, the value of this yearly assessment has continued to increase.

Understanding the socioeconomic needs of your patients is crucial for improving their overall health outcomes. Deprivation of basic necessities like food, housing, clean water, transportation, and employment, among other challenges, can have significant adverse impacts on even healthy patients. This is why it's essential to talk about Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) with your patients in order to identify their unique needs and challenges.

Redox recently released an RPM Market Landscape Report written by Healthcare Strategy Bullpen.

Nearly 50% of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans. Each of those health plans is given a Star Rating, which has become the cornerstone of consumer rankings, performance assessment, and more than $12 billion in Quality Bonus Payments.